Did you know that mortality rates from major operations were slashed from around 40% in the second half of the 19th Century, to less than 3% by the end of the first decade of the 20th Century? Current estimates of global mortality rate following major surgery still hovers around 1-4%, suggesting that the vast changes…
The importance of preserving old grasslands as reservoirs of biodiversity, even if it is just as ski slopes, has become clear. Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialised pollinators are slow to return. It takes 75 years of continuous management for the plant diversity in recovered grasslands…
Environmental conditions are primarily responsible for the survival of the bacteria | Photo Credit: Dr. Todd Parker Globally, research on climate/environmentally driven infectious diseases has been largely biased towards vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, etc. Melioidosis is a bacterial infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, and is primarily acquired by inoculation, inhalation and/or ingestion of soil- and…
Scientists and astronomers have made a major discovery that explains a strange space signal coming from our Milky Way galaxy. For the past 10 years, they noticed radio pulses coming from the Ursa Major constellation (where the Big Dipper is). These signals came every two hours and lasted between 30 to 90 seconds, like a…
US President Donald Trump had revealed his plan to bring back two astronauts, namely Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck in International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024, due to Boeing’s faulty Starliner. Their flight journey was supposed to last 10 days. Sending out a hope for them, Trump had stated that…
Sunita Williams return LIVE Updates: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) after a months-long wait. A replacement crew comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXAâs Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmosâ Kirill Peskov onboard SpaceXâs Falcon 9 rocket took off from NASAâs Kennedy Space Center…
SpaceXâs next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its eighth test at the companyâs Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., on March 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Saturday (March 15, 2025) its massive Starship rocket would leave for Mars at the end…
After a months-long wait, SpaceX and NASA have launched a mission to bring back US astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS). Williams and Wilmore have been stuck aboard the space station for nine months now. They were on a mission that was supposed to last for only about a…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launches from the Launch Complex 39A at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The replacements for NASAâs two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday (March 14, 2025) night, paving the…
A giant volcano in Alaska is showing signs of an incoming eruption, scientists have warned. The likelihood of a volcanic eruption at Mt. Spurr, which is close to Alaska’s largest city lakhs of people in it, is high and could come within weeks. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has warned that it had observed âsignificantly elevated…
